Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 78 55
Rank change year-on-year -38 -23 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,291 1,605 3,519
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.76% 3.67% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 3.92% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 863 1,040 2,794
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £86,250
90th Percentile £119,500 £113,979 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £69,040 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.23% +6.22% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,440 40,902 73,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.10% 93.61% 87.44%
Number of salaries quoted 34,676 22,163 55,834
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 1,180 £77,500 +3.33% 733
London +7 654 £87,500 - 262
Work from Home -29 567 £72,500 +0.71% 482
UK excluding London -98 533 £67,500 -2.23% 572
North of England -40 240 £67,500 -3.57% 158
North West -37 116 £67,500 - 76
South East -111 100 £75,000 +11.11% 165
Yorkshire -37 98 £70,000 -2.77% 52
South West -61 64 £66,250 -5.70% 57
Midlands -60 58 £67,500 +3.85% 83
East of England -10 37 £65,000 +13.04% 66
West Midlands -18 34 £65,000 -7.14% 43
North East -9 26 £55,200 +5.14% 31
Scotland -82 26 £62,500 -16.67% 30
East Midlands -63 23 £67,500 +3.85% 39
Wales -15 7 £55,200 +17.02% 21
Northern Ireland -28 5 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (2.09%) Apache Spark
2 20 (1.55%) Apache
2 20 (1.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 19 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (1.47%) Confluence
4 14 (1.08%) OpenStack
5 13 (1.01%) JBoss
6 11 (0.85%) WebSphere
7 9 (0.70%) CMS
8 8 (0.62%) IIS
9 6 (0.46%) Appian
10 5 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.31%) Camunda
11 4 (0.31%) nginx
12 3 (0.23%) GeoServer
12 3 (0.23%) Liferay
12 3 (0.23%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.077%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.077%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 15 (1.16%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.85%) Maya
2 11 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.70%) Endur
3 6 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.23%) SAP FS
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.077%) Actimize
7 1 (0.077%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.077%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.077%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.077%) Quorum
7 1 (0.077%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.077%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 715 (55.38%) AWS
2 579 (44.85%) Azure
3 284 (22.00%) GCP
4 230 (17.82%) Serverless
5 168 (13.01%) SaaS
6 117 (9.06%) GitHub
7 107 (8.29%) Amazon S3
8 101 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
9 97 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
11 68 (5.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 64 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
13 60 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
14 48 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 48 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
16 45 (3.49%) OpenShift
17 41 (3.18%) PaaS
18 36 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
19 31 (2.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.87%) Broadband
2 12 (0.93%) HTTP
3 9 (0.70%) AMQP
4 7 (0.54%) Internet
5 6 (0.46%) Network Security
6 5 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.39%) Firewall
6 5 (0.39%) MQTT
7 4 (0.31%) DHCP
7 4 (0.31%) DNS
7 4 (0.31%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.31%) SNMP
7 4 (0.31%) WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Multicast
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) Modbus
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
9 2 (0.15%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.077%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (14.18%) NoSQL
2 174 (13.48%) PostgreSQL
3 129 (9.99%) MongoDB
4 120 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 72 (5.58%) MySQL
6 65 (5.03%) Relational Database
7 64 (4.96%) DynamoDB
8 50 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (3.02%) Redis
10 28 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (2.17%) Big Data
10 28 (2.17%) BigQuery
11 27 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 23 (1.78%) RDBMS
13 17 (1.32%) Power BI
14 13 (1.01%) DB2
14 13 (1.01%) Pinecone
15 12 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (0.93%) Tableau
16 10 (0.77%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 170 (13.17%) Git
2 123 (9.53%) Jenkins
3 80 (6.20%) GitLab
4 51 (3.95%) TeamCity
5 46 (3.56%) JIRA
6 39 (3.02%) JUnit
7 38 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 33 (2.56%) Selenium
9 30 (2.32%) Cypress.io
10 27 (2.09%) CircleCI
11 22 (1.70%) Mockito
12 20 (1.55%) Bitbucket
13 19 (1.47%) Maven
14 13 (1.01%) JMeter
15 11 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
15 11 (0.85%) Postman
15 11 (0.85%) Vite
16 8 (0.62%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.62%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 386 (29.90%) Finance
2 373 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 161 (12.47%) Banking
4 104 (8.06%) Law
5 97 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
6 85 (6.58%) Public Sector
7 71 (5.50%) Retail
8 64 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 56 (4.34%) Financial Institution
10 51 (3.95%) Telecoms
11 42 (3.25%) Back Office
12 25 (1.94%) Games
13 23 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.70%) Billing
15 17 (1.32%) Advertising
15 17 (1.32%) Legal
16 15 (1.16%) Marketing
17 12 (0.93%) Front Office
18 11 (0.85%) French Language
Job Titles
1 437 (33.85%) Developer
2 338 (26.18%) Senior
3 252 (19.52%) Software Engineer
4 212 (16.42%) Architect
5 163 (12.63%) Lead
6 119 (9.22%) Senior Developer
7 114 (8.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 111 (8.60%) Java Developer
9 102 (7.90%) Solutions Architect
10 88 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 85 (6.58%) Java Engineer
12 77 (5.96%) .NET Developer
13 50 (3.87%) Java Software Engineer
14 49 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 48 (3.72%) Software Developer
16 47 (3.64%) Lead Developer
17 40 (3.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 39 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
18 39 (3.02%) Senior Java Developer
19 37 (2.87%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (22.77%) React
2 291 (22.54%) .NET
3 258 (19.98%) RESTful
4 228 (17.66%) Spring
5 206 (15.96%) REST
6 200 (15.49%) Spring Boot
7 186 (14.41%) Node.js
8 183 (14.18%) Kafka
9 113 (8.75%) AngularJS
10 98 (7.59%) .NET Core
11 79 (6.12%) gRPC
12 74 (5.73%) HTML
13 68 (5.27%) .NET Framework
14 62 (4.80%) CSS
14 62 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
15 56 (4.34%) ASP.NET
15 56 (4.34%) Middleware
16 52 (4.03%) Django
17 49 (3.80%) Hibernate
18 44 (3.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 368 (28.51%) Cloud Native
2 216 (16.73%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (8.44%) Product Ownership
4 108 (8.37%) Enterprise Software
5 56 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
6 47 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 34 (2.63%) Over-the-Top Content
8 34 (2.63%) Video\Live Streaming
9 33 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.48%) Algorithms
11 27 (2.09%) Virtual Team
12 26 (2.01%) AI Agents
13 25 (1.94%) Blockchain
14 24 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
15 19 (1.47%) Mobile App
16 17 (1.32%) IoT
16 17 (1.32%) Management Information System
17 15 (1.16%) Public Cloud
18 13 (1.01%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 55 (4.26%) Linux
2 21 (1.63%) Windows
3 18 (1.39%) Android
4 9 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.39%) CentOS
5 5 (0.39%) Debian
5 5 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.39%) Unix
6 2 (0.15%) VMS
7 1 (0.077%) Fedora
7 1 (0.077%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (48.64%) CI/CD
2 552 (42.76%) Agile
3 512 (39.66%) DevOps
4 487 (37.72%) Software Engineering
5 364 (28.20%) Containerisation
6 300 (23.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 283 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
8 269 (20.84%) Mentoring
9 252 (19.52%) Event-Driven
10 236 (18.28%) AI
11 233 (18.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 233 (18.05%) Test Automation
12 203 (15.72%) Computer Science
13 171 (13.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 163 (12.63%) Scrum
15 156 (12.08%) Technical Leadership
16 149 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 147 (11.39%) TDD
18 144 (11.15%) Roadmaps
19 143 (11.08%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 441 (34.16%) Java
2 337 (26.10%) Python
3 273 (21.15%) SQL
4 255 (19.75%) JavaScript
5 250 (19.36%) C#
6 216 (16.73%) TypeScript
7 109 (8.44%) Go
8 40 (3.10%) Scala
9 39 (3.02%) PHP
10 31 (2.40%) Bash
11 29 (2.25%) C++
12 26 (2.01%) C
13 24 (1.86%) Ruby
14 22 (1.70%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.63%) Kotlin
16 19 (1.47%) Shell Script
17 16 (1.24%) Rust
18 12 (0.93%) PowerShell
19 7 (0.54%) Bicep
20 6 (0.46%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 208 (16.11%) Degree
2 140 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 109 (8.44%) Security Cleared
4 75 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 63 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 50 (3.87%) Master's Degree
7 42 (3.25%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (2.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.39%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.08%) CISSP
13 12 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
14 10 (0.77%) CISM
14 10 (0.77%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.77%) PMP
15 8 (0.62%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.46%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.04%) QA
2 29 (2.25%) PCI DSS
3 26 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 26 (2.01%) GDPR
4 19 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.93%) NIST
5 12 (0.93%) SOC 2
6 10 (0.77%) NCSC
7 8 (0.62%) EMIR
8 6 (0.46%) GRC
9 5 (0.39%) IFRS
9 5 (0.39%) SLA
10 3 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.23%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.23%) SEPA
10 3 (0.23%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 402 (31.14%) Docker
2 15 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.39%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 402 (31.14%) Kubernetes
2 221 (17.12%) Terraform
3 82 (6.35%) Grafana
4 64 (4.96%) Ansible
5 35 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.94%) Kibana
7 14 (1.08%) Argo
8 11 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.70%) HP Fortify
10 6 (0.46%) Puppet
11 4 (0.31%) Cilium
11 4 (0.31%) Istio
12 3 (0.23%) Nagios
12 3 (0.23%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.077%) MIIS
14 1 (0.077%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 138 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 51 (3.95%) Oracle
3 50 (3.87%) Google
4 34 (2.63%) Typelevel
5 18 (1.39%) SAP
6 17 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.24%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.24%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.08%) Software AG
8 14 (1.08%) Splunk
9 13 (1.01%) Dynatrace
10 12 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
11 11 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.85%) BiZZdesign
11 11 (0.85%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.77%) Databricks
12 10 (0.77%) IBM
12 10 (0.77%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.70%) Cisco
13 9 (0.70%) Guidewire